What’s in six months? A lot, one early childhood advocacy group says. The Tasmanian Government wants its little ones to start school six months earlier, a move that has irked Early Childhood Australia (ECA). Deputy Premier and Minister for Education and ...

Two Australians placed in the Top 40 for the 2016 Global Teacher Prize. Hanan Al Hroub, from the Samiha Khalil Secondary School in Palestine, won the $1 million award. Pope Francis announced the results last night on a video broadcast to a ceremony staged ...

More than 50 teams representing countries throughout South-east Asia will descend on Homebush, in Sydney, this week for the FIRST Robotics Competition, a competition for high schoolers to test their STEM skills against international rivals. Although STEM skills are in ...

Primary schools should encourage young girls to participate in more physical activity. That's the message coming out of University of Canberra research that showed girls were almost 20 per cent less active than boys. The study included 550 students from ...

The Australian university system has been put on notice regarding the "opaque" ATAR admissions system. Education Minister Simon Birmingham used his keynote address at the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference to express his dissatisfaction with unmet demand and unclear processes. ...

Prospective teachers learning the trade ahead of embarking into the world of classrooms, whiteboards and playground duty can now register to sit the National Literacy and Numeracy Test. The test is conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) ...

  Boys are twice as likely as girls, and Indigenous children twice as likely as non-Indigenous children, to be developmentally vulnerable by the time they reach school age, the Australian Early Development Census stated. This census, released on Monday, looked at 300,000 new students ...

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has placed four schools on notice until April 11 regarding their finances, after cutting funding for two schools in Sydney and Canberra for "inappropriately" using taxpayer money. Birmingham said the schools put on notice – in Brisbane, Melbourne, ...

Victoria's first 'vertical school' has passed the design stage. Melbourne-based architecture firm Hayball has released several concept images of its planned primary school at Fishermans Bend, a post-industrial area on the edge of the Melbourne CBD. Vertical, or high-rise, schools use office ...

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – CS Lewis Like plants need water to grow, we believe learning requires inquiry to flourish. We have a 58-centimetre-tall NAO humanoid robot named P!nk at Our ...